The ‘ReBoot: The Guardian Code’ Revamp Got Me in the Matrix Saying, “Not Like This”

The original ReBoot was godlike. It was the ONLY time my brothers and I changed from the Saturday Fox Kids lineup, at all. We had a straight up quantum entanglement formula for watching our favorite joints. *see below* My Saturday Morning Einstein-Rosen Bridge: WMAC Masters -> Action Man -> The Tick-> Eek the Cat -> Batman TAS -> X-Men -> ReBoot. It was the one animated thing that my whole family was in on. My generation were the gamers, and the Super Nintendo was popping around that time. ReBoot blew our minds with the computer/user interface. We used to get so hyped whenever we heard the monotonous repetition of “Warning: Incoming Game”. That slowly descending purple rectangle was my shit. It gave me so much insight on how the AI must’ve felt when I was busting that ass in *insert game here*. That was the glory of the OG ReBoot, it made technical computer concepts accessible to everyone.

ReBoot was wild ahead of the curve. A smart show with a great voice cast and arguably some of the coolest villains in cartoon history. Megabyte was a dope nemesis-type villain. He served up digital Kingpin realness with the flair of Ozymandias and the color coding of Dr. Robotnik. The true Maverick of Mainframe though!? That title went to the virus Hexadecimal. The burgundy bombshell raised all types of hell in her own slice of Mainframe called Lost Angles (like Los Angeles, get it?). My dad was an engineer, he’d geek out on the ‘bleeding-edge’ computer references; runnin…